Show SALT LAKE HUNTE HUNTS S ARE AnION THEIR TOES FOR SOME REA DUCK Disappointment f to to- Those Who j Sally Saly Forth to Blinds and Marshes Small Marshes Marshes Small Bags Generally Reported Rough Reported Rough Weather Would S Improve it itS I Conditions I S By C. C E E. Palmer lIE hunters of ot Salt Lake are ae waiting lI THE T patiently patently expectantly for tor some rough weather as at this time the nearby sections abound with ducks snipe and geese of almost every ever variety Since the tho opening of tho the duck season eason October 1 the Sh shooting with but one or two exceptions exception ha has been poor A few mallards traveling but the gray northern honker has as yet failed to put in an art appearance The various clubs cubs within a radius of a afew afew afew few miles mies of Salt Lake Lale have flooded their ponds and smoothed up their blinds for tor a a. agala ajala gala jala time when something like bike a few millions more moro or less of these feathered ons ml visitors seek a more congenial clime In Utah waters aters a little litte later in m the season seaon Not like me the Isolated poncho pond and lakes laes of the upper country where perhaps a few tew hundred pass the nights the abundant waters the marshes and acres of feeding ground hereabouts attract them by the thousands By Dy some instinct or some prenatal Impulse Impulse impulse Im Im- im- im pulse they migrate straight from their Northern haunts haunt to the many man waters of Utah Here they feed and frolic for a afew afew afew few months from the middle or latter part of October until they wing their way further south Indeed many thousands thou thou- sands sunds of them never get any further south than this point As long as the season is open hunters find plenty penty of sport for themselves and a multitude of targets for their trusty guns It is no trick at all al for even the tyro In target practice to bring down the tie limit in a afew afew afew few hours of the morning flight The limit itself makes quite a load for when the game birds have fed ted up on the succulent succulent suc suc- seed and celery of ot the country roundabout fifteen twenty or twenty- twenty five fat juicy ducks make a mans man's load if there is a long fetch and carry The Tho most moat attractive feature for the tie Salt Sait Lake Lale sportsman is the easy access of the lakes lales and marshes to o tIle te city In Inmany Inmany Inmany many Instances the men woo wac enjoy this sport may leave the city at 4 a. a m. m and be ti in their blinds by 5 Ii a and spatter p away iet lra sa go gop at the game targets e as s soon as 55 the sun peeps over the Wasatch range And rest assured if anything Is in the fusillade fusil tush- fusi- fusi lade begins on time and is kept up until the feathered tribe is oft off of the tho feeding grounds for the day However when there is a real misty norther blowing none hut hul the inured relish tho tim shooting from the blinds whee the harp i-harp wet winds make it rather uncomfortable A noticeable feature of the hunter from g from the tue mci city ne the new w who standpoint l really jg tn appreciates of sportsmanship the h sport o is the absence of a dog Or course there aro arc those too who me mety go out as meat geters getters Betters merely to fill fi the pot at home and who have no real love for the sport know nothing or of a good game bird dog and care less On some of the hunting grounds near Salt Sal Lake the heavy matted grass and thick thiel rushes rushe furnish a magnificent place for a n wounded duck to hide an and the man who knocks down a fine ord often loses it by not having a retriever along To really hunt for the sport a man does not riot like relly e to have a crippled ducK flop 1101 fop off Inthe in inthe inthe l the high grass to die but wants want to get the the- spoils of his marksmanship When I Ia a duck Is wounded and Is lost in the grass or marsh mash nothing on earth can find I gas It but a good retriever unless by the merest chance In days gone by the tho average hunter did not think ho could bring In a bag I of ducks unless he be use used a a. 10 gauge double shotgun How many of these models does one see in the the- the field fieldI nowadays nowadays' The writer r shot one of t these I Jack Johnsons n some f fifteen e ewhen years s ago when black powder was generally used and old Betsy wh when whOn n loaded with a heavy charge would give gie a kick like a Missouri mule and scare the game away for tor miles around A mies No 10 Is the largest lagest of the four gauges auges now in common use Of late the tendency has been to go to tho small bore guns although the average man still shoots the 12 22 1 The last t two Y years h hew seen the 20 gauge a come o into o great t popularity and It t has practically superceded the gauge 16 with the real sportsman The pump gun with its Is single barrel which allows one to shoot six times during durIn during dur dur- duri i In ing the period it would take to load lod his double gun is very popular in both the 12 and 20 gauges I The automatic shotgun Is still sti in the ring g and has a host o of friends i rt despite S rh the ge e efforts t of ig legislators to have its use and sale prohibited For my part give me sue the gauge 12 Winchester pump and club nitro club shells for they the always are ae found In the first division I |